Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...review of Henry VIII by J. J. Scarisbrick [Aug. 2] mentioned that Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry, said "a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never" before being beheaded. This may not mean that the King was an admirable character, since it was traditional in those days for condemned persons to say a good word for the monarch before their death. If a convicted person started a last-minute inflammatory tirade against the monarch, he could be dragged off at the very last minute, to a much crueler death...
Boldface Type. Symbols of unity and progress napped like so many ensigns at fleet review. Barry Goldwater sounded like a man from the N.A.A.C.P. New York's John Lindsay agreed to second Agnew's nomination rather than serve as the rallying point for opposition to it. The platform, the keynote address, Nixon's acceptance speech and the subsidiary verbiage were on the whole impeccably progressive in tone, promising jobs, justice, education and a "piece of the action" to the poor, peace in Viet Nam, honorable conciliation with the Communists...
...deer would be so "gentled," McCarthy explained to Louis Simpson, a Pulitzer prizewinning poet who wrote about McCarthy's poetry in this week's New York Times Book Review, that they would almost lick out of the President's hand. Then they would be shot, their heads mounted for famous guests, such as John F. Kennedy or Hubert Humphrey...
...early September Potter will discuss unsettled problems, like what to do about someone in irreversible coma, in The Villanova Law Review. He will say that the report shifts the definition of death from the intuitive to one of sharply calibrated expertise...
...William F. Buckley Jr., the arch, conservative editor of National Review, liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller is so far out in left field that he's out side the G.O.P. park. Yet every time Buckley opened a newspaper, there was Rocky's determined visage adorning a full-page ad filled with short-sentence solutions to the Viet Nam war, riots in the cities and inflation. Buckley finally asked Associate Editor C. H. Simonds to see if he could outdo the Manhattan agency of Jack Tinker & Partners Inc., which supplied the Rocky ads. The result, in the current National Review...